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called al-Suweifilé (Seweifileh), whom the amîr of the castle and
the inhabitants of the village occasionally employ for this and
other purposes.
Muhammed al-Sepâhî * (Sepáhí), in his geographical
compendium, entitled Awḍaḥ al-Mesâlik (Auḍhaḥ al-Mesálik), gives the
following notice of Tebook (Tebúk):—“ Tebook (Tebúk) is a
town between al-Ḥigâz (Ḥijáz) and Syria; it contains a spring
and date plantations. In it are said to have lived the men of
Eiké † (Eikeh), unto whom God sent Sho’aeib; but Sho’aeib ‡
was not of them, but a native of Madian.§ The author of
‘Al-Ḳânoon’ (Ḳánún) says that Tebook (Tebúk) is in the desert
opposite Madían; I (al-Sepâhî) say that Tebook (Tebúk) is to
the E., and Madian to the W.” ‖ From this last observation,
taken with the passage immediately preceding it from al-Ḳanoon
(Kanún), I can draw no other conclusion than that both these
geographers place Tebook (Tebúk) towards the E., in the interior
of the desert, and Madían westwards, on or near the coast, and in
about the same latitude with Tebook (Tebúk). It is also stated
by the author of ‘Awḍaḥ’ (Aúḍhaḥ), in another part of the work,
that “Madían is a ruined town on the Ḥigâz (Ḥijáz) shore of the
Red Sea, where the bay of ’Aḳabá (’Aḳabah) has only the
breadth of a channel (Migrâ), opposite Tebook (Tebúk), at about
6 days’ distance. Ít contains, in addition to a spring of running
water, that same well from which in former times our Lord Moosà
(Moses) gave to the herds of Sho’aeib (Jethro) to drink.”
These descriptions of Madían would seem to indicate its site to
* No. 7505 of Rich’s collection in the Brit. Mus.—W.
† See Muraccei, Al-Korân Soorat Al-Sha’arâ (xxvi.), ayá 175, and note, where
Al-Eiké is stated to be a wood in the land of Madian, where Sho’aeib, or Jethro,
prophesied to the Madianites, or, according to our version of the Scriptures,
Midianites.—A.
‡ Sho’aeib is supposed to be the same with Jethro (Arabicè Gâthar, sometimes
Ghâthar) and Reuel of our version of the Scriptures. See Exodus ii. 18, and
iii. 1; also Muracci, Korân, note to Ayá 85, Sooratu-l-A’râf (vii.); S. Hood (xi.)
ayá 83 et seq.; S. ’Ankuboot (xxix.), ayá 36; and Sale, ch. vii. note e, p. 126.—A.
§ See Muracci, Al-Korân S. Al-A’aráf (vii.) ayá 85; and Sale, note d, ch. vii.
p. 126.—A;
و تبوك بين الحجاز و بين الشام و بها عين و نخيل و يقال ‖
ان بها كان اصحاب اليكة الذين بعث الله شعيبا اليهم و لم يكن
شعيب منهم و انما كان من اهل مدين قال ض القافون و تبرك ض
البرعلى محاذاة مدين اقول و تبوك ض الشرق و مدين ض الغرب
Wa Tebook bein Al-Hegâz wa bein As-Shâm; wa bihâ, ’aein wa nakhîl. Wa
yuḳâl, an bihâ kân aṣḥâb Al-Eike, elaḍhîn, bâth Allah Sho’aeiban ileihîm; wa lum
yakoon Sho’aeib minhoom, wa innmâ kân min âhli Madian. Ḳâl fi-l-Ḳanoon wa
Tebook fi-l-burr ’alà maḥâdhàt Madian; aḳool, wa Tebook fi-l-sharaḳ, wa Mudian
fi-l-gharab.—W.
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